Sentences with phrase «year things looked»

The Barnes and Noble Nook line of electronic readers has certainly saved USA retail giant Barnes and Noble bookstore chain from certain doom, when last year things looked grim.

After qualifying for the first race of the year things looked ominous.

(OTOH this year things look so bad for most teams, its going to be our best chance in quite a while).

Not exact matches

«When we look at the world, there's plenty of things to worry about, so we would anticipate there could be episodes of higher volatility in the second half or even next year,» cautions Bruce Cooper, chief investment officer at TD Asset Management.

«When I look at all of the possibilities of what can go right and wrong, that's one of the examples I point to when things go wrong,» he says, reflecting on the snafu that happened seven years ago.

Looking at demographic and economic data, Mandelman and Zlate say that there may be good reason to believe that the sort of mass movement from Mexico to the U.S. that was seen in the years leading up to the Great Recession could be a thing of the past.

And yet — here's where things get interesting — Canadians are far better off than one would tell looking at our dismal productivity performance over the past 20 years.

While things change dramatically every year with new media, technology and ways to look at data, in the end, consumers will engage and interact with good ideas that capture their hearts and minds.»

So far, the Assassin's Creed franchise has sold more than 38 million games and by the looks of things, should be adding to that total significantly by the end of this year.

We look at things in 10 - year product life cycles and in order to do that we have to invest in the technology.

A very successful and experienced businessperson once told me that when he looks back on the handful of really great partnerships that he has had over the years, he realizes that it wasn't the little things that mattered.

By the looks of things, many of you have been so busy building wealth through your businesses in the past few years, you've forgotten something pretty important — namely, a succession plan.

After interviewing hundreds of candidates over the years — I helped to grow our engineering team from one to 100 in five years — here are the top three things I look for when reviewing resumes:

When I look back on it years later, that one sentence really does keep memories vivid — it really does bring back the past — which is one of the things you really want a journal to do,» she says.

In the aftermath, I was left with years of memories and a smartphone that couldn't provide enjoyable company across a dinner table, share in the joys of experiencing a concert or kiss me goodnight before bed — all these things I had previously taken for granted simply because I was too preoccupied looking for fulfillment from a screen.

These forward - looking statements include, among other things, statements about full - year 2018 guidance, project milestones, increased opportunities in the market, backlog, bids and change orders outstanding, target projects and revenue opportunity pipeline, to the extent these may be viewed as indicators of future revenues or profitability, the expected impacts of the F2G program and progress toward completing the proposed combination with CB&I and the anticipated benefits of that transaction.

The high - performing companies we looked at had one thing in common — they were almost all run for many, many years by their founders.

And if you dig a bit deeper, and look at how things have played out over the years, there's little reason to worry.

When you start out your company, don't only look at who your customers are today, but look at who might be the next big thing in one year, or in five, or ten!

A year ago, I looked at the retailer's entire selection of laptops, and all I found were these huge, ugly, shiny things festooned with garish stickers announcing that they had «Intel Inside» and were «Vista Adequate» and «Y2K Ready.»

There's «more work to do, but by the time we get to the end of the year, things look pretty strong and pretty solid.»

In everything you do this year, find the KPIs by looking for the things that signal success or failure.

Things look even worse if you're in the food service sector where the National Restaurant Association says 30 percent of new restaurants fail in the first year, with another 30 percent failing within the next two years.

But look at my dad — killed after 20 years on the job, and my mom can't get a thing out of them, you know?

The fifth round of NAFTA renegotiation talks will begin on Friday in Mexico City, but things aren't looking great for the nearly 25 - year - old trade agreement.

«I talk to my 4 - year - olds about looking for exits and finding things to hide under.»

Here's a look at some of the most impressive things 3 - D printers made this year, as well as what their creations portend for the future.

«We ask each partner to submit their own memorandum, to describe their year's highlights, and to specifically cite things we wouldn't know by looking at the records,» he says.

«If you looked at the entire American diet 10 years ago, and the diet today, the thing that has increased most is this product called yogurt,» says Harry Balzer, the chief food analyst at market research firm NPD Group.

And while these statistics apply to New Year's specifically, you can look around you and see the same thing all year lYear's specifically, you can look around you and see the same thing all year lyear long.

«The people who are at the vanguard of the investment community in and around San Francisco are starting to come to grips with the fact that there's a gaping hole in the strategy that investors are using today, and are now looking at things that are disruptively world - changing, fundamental technologies that will take five to 15 years to develop and are extremely capital intensive,» he says.

«What we're trying to do organizationally is to say, look, this thing is done the middle of next year and we're back to running an airline.»

As an investor in the next 10 years, I'm looking at who's doing things for blockchain government and who's doing things to make Bitcoin more useful?

Things start out looking pretty dire, as the economy fell into its deep recession through mid-2009, with the S&P 500 reaching a minimum in March of that year.

«There is a growing segment of people who spent the first fifteen years of their careers doing the corporate thing, and who are now looking to work in a business that is values driven.

«This year one of the things we're looking at is we are running two pilot programs,» House reportedly said in addressing the home affairs select committee about countering online recruiting of terrorists.

We looked at who's done cool, inspiring, and amazing things in the past year, including companies that have been acquired or gone public, promising new startups, top VCs, and anything shaking up the industry.

«I know it's so tempting to go ahead and make investments and it looks good for today,» he also commented, «but when this thing ends, because we've had speculation, we've had money building up four to six years in terms of a risk pattern, I think it could end very badly.»

Demographics are indicating more university spaces becoming avaialble over next 8 years (already started in eastern Canada) as well as labour shortages for younger people (Foote) and generally better things ahead using same arguments by Dent.lt looks like we are headed for BOOM times which will really get going by 2020.

I was kind of like I said interested in gambling or at least speculating or figuring things out and then taking a calculated gamble and what they were telling me was don't try, there were saying that no one can beat the market and the stock prices are efficient and just through simple observation looking at the newspaper and they used to have the 52 - week high low prices in the newspaper, it seemed unreasonable that you know the fair price was 51 day and eight months later, it was 120, and that was pretty much every stock had that kind of range every year and it didn't make sense to me that the fundamentals of the underlying businesses were actually changing that much.

They left the U.S. in search of a better climate and a lower cost of living What they found in Ecuador was something much more... Dear International Living Reader, Just a few short years ago, things weren't looking too good for Read more...: 2017 Fast Track Ecuador Recordings

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Things look equally bleak based on metrics typically used by investors to evaluate a borrower's ability to make payments: In Asia and Latin America, companies» debt now represents roughly four years of operating profits, up from fewer than two years prior to the financial crisis of 2008.

You may look forward to retirement as a time to savor the finer things in life, and as a reward for many years of hard work.

Coworking is now at the size and scale that, five years from now, it will look pretty similar to what it is today — barring some cataclysmic thing or some incredible wildcard.

You are a high energy gal, so I am looking forward to seeing what crazy things you get involved with in the next few years.

The maker of heavy equipment for applications including construction, energy, and mining suffered for years from sluggish macroeconomic conditions around the world, and things looked similarly downbeat coming into 2016.

Looks like the second half of the year is really when things start ramping up for you.

«For a significant number of people who attend the Friday event, things will happen that they'll look back on years from now and tie to the day their lives took off,» he said.

Really you have to look at it for years, and look at the footnotes and other explanatory sections in the back when things seemingly change for no good reason.